A growing number of Republicans are pointing to President Trump's threat to invoke executive privilege in order to make their case against subpoenas sought by Democrats for key witnesses and documents
GOP senators are privately and publicly raising concerns that issuing subpoenas -- to top officials like acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton and for documents blocked by the White House -- will only serve to drag out the proceedings.
"But would the witness change the result -- and is it worth continuing to reward the bad performance of the House to stretch this out and for not a change in the outcome?Under the Senate resolution governing the impeachment trial, the Senate will have four hours of debate on a motion about whether subpoenas for witnesses and documents are in order -- once the House impeachment managers and Trump's defense team make their opening arguments and after senators ask up to 16 hours of...
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